K. Muthineni, M. Najar and J. Vidal, “Factory of the Future – Integrating Wireless Communication, Sensing, and Localization with 5G and 6G,”  in Industry 4.0 - Transforming the Future Beyond Manufacturing - Volume 1, Digital Technologies and Smart Industrial Systems, IntechOpen, London, 2026. doi = 10.5772/intechopen.1013075

1. K. Muthineni, A. Artemenko, D. Abode, J. Vidal and M. Nájar, "PosGNN: A Graph Neural Network Based Multimodal Data Fusion for Indoor Positioning in Industrial Non-Line-of-Sight Scenarios," in IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, vol. 7, pp. 15-26, 2026, doi: 10.1109/OJVT.2025.3630970

2. F. Maresca, F. Devoti, G. Encinas-Lago, V. Sciancalepore, J. Paradells and X. Costa-Perez, "Localization-Driven Multi-Robot Exploration for Indoor Search and Rescue," in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 7, pp. 421-441, 2026, doi: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2026.3650890. 

3. D. Abode, P. M. d. S. Ana, R. Adeogun, A. Artemenko, G. Berardinelli, "Goal-Oriented Interference Coordination in 6G In-Factory Subnetworks," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2025, doi: 10.1109/JSAC.2025.3574586

4. K. Muthineni, A. Artemenko, J. Vidal, M. Nájar, M. Catalan, J. Paradells, "Deep Learning-Based UWB-IMU Data Fusion for Indoor Positioning in Industrial Scenario," in IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, 2025, doi: 10.1109/OJVT.2025.3566888

5. G. Singh Bhatia; Y. Corre; T. Tenoux; M. Di Renzo , "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Factory Environments: Channel Modeling and Use-Case Analysis", in IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, September 2025, DOI: 10.1109/MVT.2025.3578181

6. J. C. Ruiz-Sicilia, M. D. Renzo, P. Mursia, A. Kaushik, V. Sciancalepore, "Spatial Multiplexing in Near-Field Line-of-Sight MIMO Communications: Paraxial and Non-Paraxial Deployments," in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, doi: 10.1109/TGCN.2024.3418842.

7. D. Abode, R. Adeogun and G. Berardinelli, "Power Control for 6G In-Factory Subnetworks With Partial Channel Information Using Graph Neural Networks," in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 5, pp. 3120-3135, 2024, doi: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3396749

8. S. Kumar,  D. Camps-Mur, E. Garcia-Villegas, "C-SLA-MLO: Enhancing SLA Compliance in Industrial Wi-Fi through Cooperative Multilink Operation", in IOT Elsevier, June 2024.

9. D. Urbaniak, S. Bro Damsgaard, W. Zhang, J. Rosell, R. Suárez, and M. Suppa, “Distributed Control for Collaborative Robotic Systems Using 5G Edge Computing”, IEEE Access, October 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3475584

10. S. Khan, J. Paradells, and M. Catalan, "Low-Cost 3D Indoor Visible Light Positioning: Algorithms and Experimental Validation," Photonics, vol. 11, no. 5, p. 626, 2024.

11. P. T. Karfakis, M. S. Couceiro, D. Portugal, “NR5G-SAM: A SLAM Framework for Field Robot Applications Based on 5G New Radio”, in Sensors, June 2023.

Positioning & ISAC (Integrated Sensing and Communication)

1.  K. Muthineni, A. Artemenko, A. Grudnitsky, J. Vidal, and M. Najar, "Deep Learning-Based Data Fusion of 6G Sensing and Inertial Information for Target Positioning: Experimental Validation," 2025 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), Poznan, Poland, June 2025, BEST PAPER AWARD

2.  K. Khosroshahi, P. Sehier, S. Mekki, M. Suppa, "Localization Accuracy Improvement in Multistatic ISAC with LoS/NLoS Condition using 5G NR Signals", WCNC 2025, Milan, Italy, 24–27 March 2025

3. K. Khosroshahi, P. Sehier, S. Mekki, "Superposition of PRS and PDSCH for ISAC System: Spectral Efficiency Enhancement and Range Ambiguity Elimination", CCNC 2025, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 10–13 January 2025

4.  K. Khosroshahi, P. Sehier, S. Mekki, M. Suppa, "Multistatic ISAC: Localization Accuracy Improvement in LoS/NLoS Scenario using PRS",  CCNC 2025, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 10–13 January 2025

5. K. Khosroshahi, P. Sehier, S. Mekki, "Leveraging PRS and PDSCH for Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems", GLOBECOM 2024, Cape Town, South Africa, 8–12 December 2024

6. K. Khosroshahi, P. Sehier, S. Mekki, "Doppler Ambiguity Elimination Using 5G Signals in Integrated Sensing and Communication", VTC2024-Fall, Washington DC, USA, 7-10 October 2024

7. K. Muthineni, A. Artemenko, J. Vidal, M. Nájar, "Outlier Rejection for 5G-Based Indoor Positioning in Ray-Tracing-Enabled Industrial Scenario," ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Denver, USA, June 2024.

8. K. Muthineni, A. Artemenko, J. Vidal, M. Nájar, “From C-band to mmWave-band: Ray-Tracing-Assisted Evaluation of 5G-Based Indoor Positioning in Industrial Scenarios”, IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 2023 (LCN), Florida, USA, October 2023.

9. S. Khan, J. Paradells, M. Catalan, “Low Cost Optical Camera Communication for IoT”, PIMRC 2023, Toronto, Canada, September 2023

10. K. Muthineni, A. Artemenko, J. Vidal, M. Nájar, "A Survey of 5G-Based Positioning for Industry 4.0: State of the Art and Enhanced Techniques", 2023 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2023.

11. P.T. Karfakis, M.S. Couceiro, D. Portugal, C.H. Antunes, "A Comparative Study of Mobile Robot Positioning Using 5G NR",. In ICRA 2022 Workshop in Innovation in Forestry Robotics: Research and Industry Adoption, Philadelphia, PA, United States, May 2022

RIS (Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces) and Holographic Communications

12. J. C. Ruiz-Sicilia et al. “Low Complexity Optimization for Line-of-Sight RIS-Aided Holographic Communications”, 31st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Helsinki, Finland, September 2023.

13. J. C. Ruiz-Sicilia, X. Qian, M. Di Renzo, V. Sciancalepore, M. Debbah, and X. Costa-Perez, “On the degrees of freedom of RIS-aided holographic MIMO systems,” WSA & SCC 2023; 26th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas and 13th Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding, Braunschweig, Germany, February 2023.

14. F. Maresca, A. Albanese, P. Mursia, V. Sciancalepore, X. Costa-Pérez, "A Frequency-Agnostic RIS-based solution to control the Smart Radio Propagation Environment", 2022 IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communication (SPAWC), Oulu, Finland, July 2022.

Propagation and Radio Channel Modeling

15. G. Singh Bhatia, Y. Corre, L. Thrybom, M. Di Renzo, "Analysis of 3GPP and Ray-Tracing Based Channel Model for 5G Industrial Network Planning", 2024 IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall), Washington DC, USA, October 2024, DOI: 10.1109/VTC2024-Fall63153.2024.10757879

16. G. Singh Bhatia, Y. Corre, L. Tenoux, M. Di Renzo, "Exploring RIS Coverage Enhancement in Factories: From Ray-Based Modeling to Use-Case Analysis", 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP),  Glasgow, UK, March 2024, DOI: 10.23919/eucap60739.2024.10501167

17. G. Singh Bhatia, Y. Corre, M. Di Renzo, "Tuning of Ray-Based Channel Model for 5G Indoor Industrial Scenarios", 2023 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 2023, DOI: 10.1109/MeditCom58224.2023.10266601

18. G. Singh Bhatia, Y. Corre, M. Di Renzo, "Efficient Ray-Tracing Channel Emulation in Industrial Environments: An Analysis of Propagation Model Impact", 2023 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), Gothenborg, Sweden, July 2023, DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit58263.2023.10188258

Industrial Wireless Networking (Wi‑Fi 7 MLO, CF‑mMIMO, Subnetworks)

19. S. Kumar, E. Garcia-Villegas, and D. Camps-Mur, “Multi-AP Coordination for MLO Scheduling in OBSS Environments,” in Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. (VTC-Fall),  Chengdu, China, October 2025.

20. V. Rachuri, K. Chen-Hu and G. Berardinelli, "Latency-Aware Radio and Computational Resource Allocation for Industrial CF-mMIMO Networks," 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring), Oslo, Norway, June 2025, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/VTC2025-Spring65109.2025.11174795

21. D. Abode, P. M. d. S. Ana, R. Adeogun, G. Berardinelli, "Communication-Aware Dynamic Speed Control for Interference Mitigation in 6G Mobile Subnetworks",  2024 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), Belgrade, Serbia, November 2024, doi: 10.1109/CSCN63874.2024.10849686

22. D. Abode, R. Adeogun, L. Salaün, R. Abreu, T. Jacobsen, and G. Berardinelli, “Unsupervised Graph‑based Learning Method for Sub‑band Allocation in 6G Subnetworks”, in IEEE VTC‑Fall 2024, Washington DC, USA, October 2024.

23. R. Ochonu, J. Vidal, "Slice-aware Resource Allocation and Admission Control for Smart Factory Wireless Networks", VTC2024-Fall, Washington DC, USA, 7-10 October 2024

24. V. Rachuri and G. Berardinelli, "A Novel User Association and Power Control Algorithm for Cell-free Massive MIMO," 2024 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), Madrid, Spain, July 2024, pp. 281-286, doi: 10.1109/MeditCom61057.2024.10621149

25. V. Rachuri, C. N. Manchón, G. Berardinelli and A. Amiri, "A Probabilistic QoS-Aware User Association in Cell-Free Massive MIMO for Industry 4.0," 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates,  April 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/WCNC57260.2024.10570797

26.  S. Kumar, E. Garcia-Villegas, and D. Camps, ”SLA-MLO: Congestion-aware SLA-based scheduling of multiple links in IEEE 802.11be,” in 2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 6-9 2024

27. D. Abode, R. Adeogun and G. Berardinelli, "Power Control for 6G Industrial Wireless Subnetworks: A Graph Neural Network Approach", 2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Glasgow, United Kingdom, March 2023

Control, Digital Twins & Robotics

28. D. Abode, P. Maia de Sant Ana, A. Artemenko, R. Adeogun, G. Berardinelli, “Control‑Aware Transmit Power Allocation for 6G In‑Factory Subnetwork Control Systems”, in IEEE VTC‑Fall Workshop on B5G/6G‑NG‑IIoT, October 2024, Washington, USA.

29. S. Singh, M. Suppa, R. Suarez, and J. Rosell, “Hybrid Stereo Dense Depth Estimation for Robotic Tasks in Industrial Automation”, in IROS 2024, October 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

30. F. Maresca, F. Grazioli, A. Albanese, V. Sciancalepore, G. Negri and X. Costa-Perez, "Are you a robot? Detecting Autonomous Vehicles from Behavior Analysis," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 2024, pp. 4473-4479, doi: 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610658. 

31. V.‑P. Bui, D. Abode, P. M. de Sant Ana, K. Muthineni, S. R. Pandey, and P. Popovski, “Digital Twin of Industrial Networked Control System Based on Value of Information”, in IEEE GLOBECOM 2024, December 2024, Cape Town, South Africa.

32. F. Maresca, A. Romero, C. Delgado, V. Sciancalepore, J. Paradells and X. Costa-Pérez, "REACT: Multi Robot Energy-Aware Orchestrator for Indoor Search and Rescue Critical Tasks," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025, pp. 5445-5451, doi: 10.1109/ICRA55743.2025.11127906.  

33. D. Urbaniak, J. Rosell, R. Suárez, M. Suppa, “Edge computing: influence of latencies on the precision of robots”, XLIV Jornadas de Automática 2023, Zaragoza, Spain, September, 2023

34. P.T. Karfakis, M.S. Couceiro, D. Portugal, R. Cortesão, "UWB Aided Mobile Robot Localization with Neural Networks and the EKF", In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Prague, Czech Republic, October 2022

35. D. Urbaniak, J. Rosell, R. Suárez, "Edge Computing in Autonomous and Collaborative Assembly Lines", In 2022 IEEE 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Stuttgart, Germany, September 2022

36. F. C. Ferreira, M. Zaera, P.T. Karfakis, M.S. Couceiro, "Tailoring 3D Mapping Frameworks for Field Robotics", In ICRA 2022 Workshop in Innovation in Forestry Robotics: Research and Industry Adoption, Philadelphia, USA, May 2022

37. D. Urbaniak, A. Agostini, D. Lee, "Combining Task and Motion Planning using Policy Improvement with Path Integrals", IEEE-RAS 20th International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Munich, Germany, July 2021, pp. 149-155